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Spirits Speaking from the Heart at Tranquil Spirit.

Spirit Answers to Visitors' Questions during March and April 2008

This page will be revised bi-monthly.

The following are Hai's and other spirits' responses to miscellaneous
questions recently posed by visitors to this web site or by personal visitors to our home.
If you would like to ask a general question please complete the Question Form
or post it in one of the Web Board's forums. Please do not use this form for personal questions
relating to your own specific circumstances/issues. It is ok to use the form for questions which would
be equally relevant to other people. If you have a question of a more personal
nature please see the Consultations Page. Alternatively, you can
post your question on the Web Board.

Henry on the complexity of human motivations and the wholeness of our True Nature.

Henry came through one night and asked for his words to be passed on to a wider audience.
Henry began by telling us were all well-meaning people. He was asked:

Q: Were you a well-meaning person when last one the earth plane?

Henry: I tried to be. I did not always succeed, but I did try to be. It's not
always easy though is it? When you mean well, but you don't always manage to make the
'meaning-well' happen. That is the way of it I suppose. Meaning well does not always
bring through your actions.

Q: I suppose it's because we don't love enough do we?

Henry: Well we don't love enough or we are confused within ourselves and our
minds are split and fractured, not whole. They work in different directions all at
once. The secret is to make your minds whole you see, but the human heart, the human
intentions are so often fractured I find, spinning off in all kinds of different
directions at the same moment. It symbolises our complexity I suppose, the different
strands to our thinking and the different wishes and motivations.

What we need to do is to review all those motivations that may affect us and our
actions and our thoughts and feelings and to deal with them one by one. Those which I
mean are less edifying you see. I mean, by dealing with the ones that are less
edifying, one at a time, we find we are left with the one great motivator, the one
great, all embracing motivation, which grows and grows as we deal with the lesser ones.
Can you follow me in this my friends? And therefore our hearts grow broad and encompass
all. Our hearts grow big and love all as we deal with the lesser motivations one by one
and send them on their way (laughs quietly). And so our grand motivation grows by which
we embrace all and love all.

You see, we do embrace all and love all, my friends, within our innermost being, our
inner hearts; it is our nature. But because of these thieves, these subterfuges that
would dilute our great love; that would subtract from our overall grand motivation, we
are weakened in our love for others, weakened in our energy for others, and so we are
undone by it. But if we could just discard, off load, cast aside the burden of these
lesser motivations, these lesser, fractious thoughts we would find we would grow and
unfold in all our glory; loving all, being with all, embracing all. Do you follow me?

Q: Yes. Are the lesser motivations ego?

Henry: They are to do with the ego oftentimes, but they are distractions of
another kind, snares of another kind that distract us from our centre; this is how we
should view it. For there are those who would view these lesser distractions as if they
were part of our nature. They point the finger and cast the stone and say this person
has done this or not done that. But what they do not understand, my friends is that our
Inner Nature, our True Nature is the very essence of love and all embracing-ness and
it is only that we have been diverted by our minds distracting us that we have
forgotten our True Nature. Cast off the mind's distractions. We are all holy and
beautiful. We are beings of holy love and embracing-ness. Goodbye my friends. Reflect
upon my words and share them where you can with others.

John the Preacher on false modesty, self-deception and delusion, false and limiting ideas about the self. Our True Nature is perfect.

John told us he was a Doctor of Religion 1541 and lectured students on the matter.
He spoke with a commanding voice not unlike that of a preacher in his time. John began by
telling us we were fine people. Someone asked him if he was a fine person. He replied:

John: Well I would not lay claim to it, for my purposes my attitude of mind is
that it is better to wait for others to comment on whether you are a fine person or not
rather than singing your own phrases.

Q: So we need to be modest?

John: Yes modesty, modesty. Genuine modesty is a precious commodity, a
precious gift. There were many I knew who had false modesty, who made a show of modesty
and if you happened to challenge it out of mischievousness they would appear suddenly
ruffled. So modesty indeed is a precious thing, a valuable thing, a virtue. False
modesty is false modesty.

Q: Were you playful then? Did you tease people?

John: I would not say I teased sir. I merely revealed to them themselves
because they were sadly deluded to think themselves modest whereas they were not. They
just needed to wear their modesty as a cloak, as a badge. And they wished everyone to
collude with the opinion that they were indeed modest and this was far from the truth,
far from the truth. I do not say this to blame them, you understand, but it is rather
to point out the complexity of the human personality that is able to deceive itself
within its own terms and indeed to believe the falsehoods that it generates; the false
images of itself that it generates. This becomes a prison to the person enshrined in
this deception, a deception that they become totally blinded to, almost unaware of. But
should it be pointed out to them, the rawness of their true perception comes to light.
For at a deeper level, within their innermost being, they are aware of what they do,
but on the surface are able to perpetuate this pretence, this sham, this artistry,
this theatre beyond the bounds of all reasonableness.

Do you follow my reasoning? They create an illusion of themselves like a magic
trick, like a lantern that they believe in which takes hold of them, which becomes
them, if you wish. But it is not them at all. It is merely their own sham illusion
which creates a difficulty for them in getting in touch with their true identity, their
true selves. For they create a part, a role for themselves, which they act and re-enact
and re-enact day after day.

Q: Well it is hard to see ourselves as others see us.

John: This is true my friend, but we do not always see the beauty in
ourselves either. This is the other side of the coin; that we may disparage ourselves
also with our illusion. There are some who aggrandise themselves through their illusion,
but many would also disparage themselves through their illusion. Both are equally
wrong. Both are equally negative and at fault. Then again I do not use the words 'at
fault' from the point of view of blame. I merely point out the futility of it, the
negativity of it. If we could only be free of such absorption, fixed perception,
needing to play the game of our concepts then we would see others and ourselves more
fully, more clearly.

Q: But the more successful we are in creating this sham then the harder the shell.

John: Yes this is true sir. It is true what you say and so the shell becomes
a concrete encasement through which no chisel may penetrate unless some explosion
should occur which may of course be a great painful explosion. For the more the casing
becomes hardened the more it will fragment when the explosion comes, bearing the
weaknesses of the one behind and within the encasement, causing this one to feel a
greater vulnerability than they have ever felt in their life. Yet necessary it is
sometimes for such an explosion to occur less the person be encased in their deadly
prison beyond the bounds of all compassion and all hope.

Q: Were you a psychiatrist?

John No lady I was a man of the Church. I studied human nature as part
of my vocation, contrary perhaps to many of my colleagues, my peers, but I undertook to
understand as best I might more of the human side of things. For there were many of my
peers who would quote doctrine and dogma, who would quote chapter and verse and indeed
they were able to quote chapter and verse because they had studied their bibles to the
nth degree and were very quick with a chapter and verse. But yet they could not apply
this oftentimes or make sense of natural physical life through such application. I felt
there was a need to use common sense, observations of human nature to blend with the
interpretation of the bible in order to create a marriage of understanding, of deeper
understanding of the human soul.

Q: Is that what you told your parishioners?

John: I was a doctor, I lectured to students, but I suppose they were my
parishioners in a sense.

Q: Why do you think people would want to mask an independence of mind?

John: A weakness, a weakness, for they believe that masking that which they
find to be inadequate and by entering into this pretence of what they feel to be
adequate that they make themselves secure. And so to take my example of the man of
false modesty, they feel a need to wear this modesty like a robe so they create the
impression of it and (smiles) some would embroider it and put all manner of things on
this robe for the robe better to fit this false modesty, this sham modesty, this
appearance of modesty. But fundamentally it is because of a sense of their own inner
weakness, though this in itself is a false perception because we are all perfect as we
are, if we could but realise it, if we could but connect with it. But because we feel
we are less than perfect we feel a need to take on the mantle of other things that may
vary from person to person.

I merely give modesty as an illustrative example of this
but for various people there may be all manner of things they take into their minds in
order to be "perfect" or even adequate. They think they must be like this or that and
so they shackle themselves to a ball of lead dragging it around with them. They feel
it is imperative to be like this or like that, to be a certain manner, a certain way
rather than being their True Nature, finding their True Nature, their Oneness with the
Eternal spark of Life.

Q: People think they sometimes need to act tough and cannot express feelings.

John: Yes, they will not allow emotions to touch them and so that
impoverishes their soul. And so their souls will go on from eternity to eternity should
they retain this obstinacy of toughness as you call it. And so my friends it is a sad
lesson and a sad warning to us all. If we hang on to such things we may indeed set
them along a course in perpetuity until such time that we eventually feel inclined to
abandon them, a time which may be a long time coming and we may carry this trend on
into the next incarnation should we be so obstinate.

So we must let go my friends of
these attachments, these limitations, that like barnacles encrust the hull of our ship
and prevent us from sailing forth freely, smoothly, through the waters of life, making
little headway and what headway we make indeed is arduous. So we must break off the
barnacles, free our ship that we may sail safe and free, light and happy. These
barnacles are like stowaways who have free passage having no business on our ship so
we are best rid of them.

Q: Have we all got these barnacles?

John: Yes, in different forms and to different degrees, but to be rid of them
is the God given mission of us all, each and every one, that our ship may sail free
and light to the horizon and beyond.

Q: Did you manage to do that in your lifetime?

John: As much as any human being can do it I tried to do it. But you are all
correct in saying that it is not an easy thing to do. We can only do our best. But with
the freeing of every single barnacle we become lighter and it is better to be rid of
as many barnacles as possible than to not undertake the task.

Q: How did you free yourself of yours?

John: By not feeding them, by not giving them succour or comfort. Do not
feed them, scrape them off, hammer them off, whatever suits you, but be rid of them.
Do not give them food or comfort, succour or space. Do not feed them. Do not give them
energy and they will wither and die as they should do.

Q: Do you still teach?

John: I do sir and they also teach me, for with every person you teach you
learn also a new lesson of life. This is the mark of a true teacher, one who learns as
he teaches, one who hears the lesson as he preacheth the lesson, indeed.

Q: We always seem to get the best lessons from the doldrums and the hard
times.

John: But do not hold on to the doldrums too long lest they become more
barnacles on the boat. Learn the lesson and then it is time to feed the barnacles to
the crabs. I shall leave you now my good friends. I have enjoyed our conversation. God
bless you all. May the spirit within you find you your way. Goodbye.

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